CNN —The cast of “Friends” is well known for being besties, but that developed over time. During an appearance on Dax Shepard’s “Armchair Expert” podcast, “Friends” star Lisa Kudrow shared that the “six-way relationship” shared among cast members Jennifer Aniston, Courteney Cox, Matt LeBlanc, David Schwimmer, Matt LeBlanc, the late Matthew Perry and Kudrow “took some work.”The key, she said, was in their communication. “I had to learn to be like, ‘Can I talk to you about something?’”The actress said she learned from some of the cast members who she felt were better at it than her. “I saw it modeled really well by Courtney and Jennifer and Matt,” Kudrow said. We are a family,” the surviving cast members said in a joint statement released after Perry’s death.

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